Copy folder from c hard disk to e hard disk

[Guest]

I used to use Norton Ghost to copy all my files. I would like a simpler
solution.
I want to copy certain folders and files from my C disk to my E disk. This
will provide me wioth additional backup.

If it means anything, I use Windows XP Home and my edition is Hebrew
enabled. I am located in Israel. tahnks for your help

 

[DL]

From an earlier post;
you should be able to ammend command to your specific needs.

My daughter uses Win 2000. I have a batch file I use with Win98 SE
to backup My Documents from drive 1 to 2 using Xcopy. I have a
shortcut to it on the Desktop. Works well. I want to make one for
her Win 2000 machine. I'll need to change it as the Documents are in
a different folder. Can this be done in Win 2k?

Here's the line:
Xcopy c:\mydocu~1\*.* F:\Savedocs\ /c /e /h /k /y

I'll take the 3 Xcopy files with me in case Win 2k is lacking it.

Would appreciate any information.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

Your command will work nicely under Win2000. I recommend
you code it like so:

xcopy "%UserProfile%\*.*" F:\Savedocs\ /c /e /h /k /y

or even better:


xcopy "%UserProfile%\My Documents\*.*" F:\Savedocs\ /c /e /h /k /y

I recommend you add the /d switch to avoid copying the same
files time and again, even though they have not changed.

Do NOT import any commands from Win98. At best they
won't work; at worst they behave unpredictably.

 

[Guest]

May I add that I would like this function added to scheduled tasks

 

[q_q_anonymous]

I used to use Norton Ghost to copy all my files. I would like a simpler
solution.
I want to copy certain folders and files from my C disk to my E disk. This
will provide me wioth additional backup.

If it means anything, I use Windows XP Home and my edition is Hebrew
enabled. I am located in Israel. tahnks for your help

are you sure that norton ghost copies files. I think it only clones and
restores partitions.

the obvious thing is copy and paste. You haven't stated why you don't
use that. I guess it's 'cos it asks questions during. Not sure how to
turn that off.

YCOPY is some nice software that doesn't prompt. though it's a bit
slow.

You coudl use the command prompt, xcopy, as suggested.

You mentioned scheduled tasks. Don't necessarily expect that to do the
whole backup. It starts a program with certain parameters. If you use
xcopy, you could give parametrs to get it going automatically. If using
YCOPY(A GUI program) you might not be able to.

"creating a scheduled task" is "creating a scheduled task" don't be too
optimistic to think that it's necessarily scheduling a task. Though
with xcopy it should do 'cos xcopy takes parameters that do the task
you want.

So, use an xcopy command that works well for you, the right switches,
as suggested. Then make a scheduled task launching CMD.EXE with those
parameters. e.g.
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /k xcopy .........................
or
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c xcopy ................


cmd /k would prob be more suitable, /k makes it keep the cmd prompt
open afterwards, so you can see the progress. If you do /c it will
close the command prompt after the command finishes, or even earlier,
e.g. cmd /c dir /p will close the command prompt after one screenful of
information.

I suppose the inbuilt win commands work for diff languages (I don't
know if the filenames contain non ascii eg hebrew or japanese
characters). If they do, I don't know whether ycopy will deal with
that. But, if those characters are only in the contents of the files,
then it'd be certanly be no problem for ycopy. I'm sure that either
way xcopy will be able to deal with it 'cos it's inbuilt.

 

[John A]

I use HandyBackup which can backup or synchronise folders and be
scheduled to run automatically
www.handybackup.net

John Allen